woman's changing role

• the whole thrust of the woman's liberation movement is their assertion that woman has more value as a person than man thinks she has, as demonstrated by the way he has treated her. (10)
• woman has always been more person-orientated than man. over thousands of years her responsibility for childbearing as well as the major responsibility in the rearing and socialisation process of her children have developed within her a greater consciousness and sensitivity to the wants and needs of others. (10)
• the women of the 1970s may find her identity and fulfilment in many other ways outside of the family and the home. (11)
• Not many years ago the family was a unit of economic survival. In the Middle Ages, a man went out to fight as a warrior or to hunt or farm. The women stayed home. In opur colonial times, the men tilled the soil and ground a living out of the earh ; but still most women remained in the home. After the Industrial Revolution, the husband still left the home, but this time to work in the factories for twelve or more ours, six days a week. Women remained in the hiome. The full burden of maintaining the home for many thousands of years has been the woman's. aupon her fell the major responsibility of caring for the children and the home. Today, however many women have been reluctant to consider themselves exlusively homemaker, mother and wide. In the 1930s the vast majority of women were satisfied wit this somestic role. (11)
• money won't make you happy. it'll only make you more comfortable when you're miserable. (14)
• many modern women look for marriage as a way to have a satisfying personal involvement rather than ma and pa playing house. (14)
• Katharine Hepburn chose acting as a career over marriage - not because she disliked marriage, but because she felt she couldn't do both and acting appealed to her more. (15)
• more is expected of the marriage itself. women no longer view a marriage as being successful if the couple just manages to get along and remain together. now marriage is seen more as a shared relationship. The doing of things together becomes important. Each person expresses a need for self-expression and growth. Roles are flexible and interchangeable. (16)

Ford, E. 1974. woman's changing role. In Why Marriage?, 10-20p. USA: Argus Communications.